Steak Fajitas Recipe
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Steak Fajitas Recipe – Steak fajitas make a quick and easy meal perfect for weeknight suppers or weekend celebrations! Made with beef, peppers, onions and served with a stack of warm tortillas and condiments. They are always a favorite!
Looking for more quick and easy dinner recipes? I think you’ll love my chicken parmesan, beef tacos, beef enchiladas, and easy steak bites to name a few.
This Steak Fajita Recipe is the perfect dish for time-crunched suppers! It is easy and delicious and is a life-saver on rushed nights like we all have from time to time! My Chicken Fajitas are another favorite family meal for times like this. Both are just as perfect on the weekends to serve family and friends for a casual meal everyone enjoys.
Steak Fajitas Recipe
I like to take this amazing steak fajitas recipe even further in the time-saving and easy-peasy department. I like to prep it the night before when I know I will serve it the next day.
How to Make Steak Fajitas with Meal Prep Tips:
My steak fajitas recipe is perfect for easy meal prep to make weeknight meals even easier! Here’s how to meal prep my steak fajitas:
- Slice peppers and onion and make the marinade.
- Place the veggies in one zip-top bag and the steak in another. Add 1/3 of the marinade to each bag, seal it, and turn the bag to make sure that all of the ingredients are coated with the marinade.
- Put it all in the refrigerator to marinate overnight. Refrigerate the remaining marinade.
- It’s ready in minutes when I cook it for supper the next evening.
Now that is perfect for a quick and easy dinner!
Here’s my family favorite Steak Fajita Recipe. I hope it helps you with supper when you are short on time. Most of all, I hope you love it as much as we do!
Steak Fajitas Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 pounds skirt, flank, sirloin, or hanger steak , sliced into 1/2 inch strips
- 1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced into thin strips
- 1 bell pepper, deseeded and sliced into thin strips
- 1 medium onion, peeled and sliced into thin strips
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- pinch cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 6-8 tortillas, warmed
Instructions
- Place the steak into a sealable bag. Place the peppers and onion into a separate sealable bag. Add the olive oil, lime juice, chili powder, ground cumin, cayenne pepper, salt, black pepper, and garlic to a jar with a screw top or tight fitting lid. Shake until well combined. Pour 1/3 of the marinade over steak, 1/3 of marinade over vegetables and reserve the remaining marinade in the jar for using when cooking the steak fajitas. Seal the bags tightly and refrigerate for one hour to overnight.
- When ready to cook, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Pour the vegetables into the skillet and cook until just tender crisp, about 5 minutes. Remove the vegetables from the skillet to a plate and add steak strips to the same skillet. When the steak is cooked throughout (about 7-10 minutes), add vegetables back to the skillet along with the reserved marinade.
- Serve with warm tortillas and desired optional garnishes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
There is no ther liquid but the oil and lime juice. How is that supposed to cover all the ingredients and have left over marinade
This is my concern too. I just threw it in the fridge now but it really doesn’t feel like enough marinade at all. I didn’t even leave any reserve marinade because I felt like it needed to be mor won the meat and veggies. None left over.
I am searching for what I missed as there is nowhere near enough in my bowl. How is that supposed to be divided into thirds. It would only be about 2 tablespoons.
Very good recipe! The only change I made was to double up the marinade I felt like there wasn’t enough & I did save a bit to brush over the meat. My husband absolutely loved it. We cooked this on the grill it definitely will be our go to fajita marinade. I already had meat thawed when I seen it was recommended to marinade over night i had enough time to marinade 5 hours & it was so flavorful & fabulous!
I’m so glad you and your husband enjoyed this recipe, Liz. Thanks!
I don’t care for fajitas, but this recipe is the best and easiest! My hubby smokes this in a black iron pan on the charcoal grill. But we did not like the hanger steak…way too tough!
And leftovers are great! 🤤👍🏻
So glad that you both enjoy these! Thanks! xo
I had all the ingredients on hand with the exception of the lime juice. It turned out so good! I love being able to prep the meat & veggies the night before and having dinner ready in minutes the following day. And, did I mention that it was really good? 😉 Thank you for sharing your recipe!
I had leftover sirloin steak and veggies from another meal. I sliced the steak very thin and sliced the veggies into smaller straps. Because everything was already cooked, I added my leftovers to a cast iron skillet, brushed it all over with your marinade and heated on medium high heat until it was heated through and sizzling. It was delicious!
I tried this recipe, and it was very good! Thank you for posting it.
I added cilantro to the veggies (and a few mushrooms I had on hand. I did not save any marinade– there wasn’t really enough.
The only change I’ll make next time I make it is to add more salt.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Laurie! You can definitely add salt to taste. Thanks!
Made these tonight,all I can say is yummy,,
I’m so happy you enjoyed them! Thanks Brenda! xo
This is a recipe I will definitely try Robyn!
Isabelle from Ontario, Canada
can I use lemon juice instead of lime?!
You could use lemon juice, Shannon, but I and my family prefer the taste with the lime juice. Hope you enjoy.
This looks so delicious and fun to make! I would love to make it sometime just to see how it tastes!
Can’t wait to try this little Gem of a recipe! Thank you for sharing! Looks perfect!
Bobbi
Yum! I love steak tacos and these fajitas look great!
We have a mexican resturant here in DeSoto Mo. Koyal’s. They make a Steak Jalisto. It has mushrooms and a thin cheese sauce. It is similar to this one. Have to try it.